Prohibition might have made the production and sale of alcohol in the United States illegal, but that doesn’t mean Americans put down the bottle. The supply chain for alcoholic beverages flourished during the ban but in a completely different way.
Join Deputy Editor Brielle Jaekel and fellow FreightWavesTV host Mary O’Connell on this week’s episode of Tracks Through Time as they go back in time to Prohibition and see what it was like to make alcohol with regular household ingredients.
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